How to Thicken Lotion

hi I'm Sharon your do-it-yourself beauty expert coming to you from posh Hair Studio in Kew Gardens Queens New York now I want to talk to you a little bit about thickening your lotions I don't care what anyone tells you unfortunately if it's a commercial product you're really not going to have too much luck thickening it at home your best bet would either be to refrigerate it overnight or leave a jar of your commercial product open overnight to absorb some of that moisture it'll just kind of come out and get a little thicker now we you can use you can actually see the ingredients in the back of your commercial product and an emulsifier will probably be lanolin or beeswax but the problem is you're not going to know the proportions that were used to create that commercial product product so once you start adding things yourself now that product is no longer stable some girls they'd like to mess with it and they want to make their own thickening lotion I highly highly highly recommend that you don't unfortunately you're just going to ruin the product so if it's a little too runny use it as is or as I said just put in the refrigerator sometimes that helps to thicken but now what if it's a lotion that you made yourself well if you made the lotion yourself you absolutely already know the ingredients that are in it and nine times out of ten you probably used lanolin lanolin is a great emulsifier it helps to really thicken up your lotion because this is the oil that's derived from a sheep's wool so what you can do is basically use a double boiler and what you want to do is very very gently heat up your lotion you want to keep it on low heat for a long time so we're not talking about 5 to 10 minutes sometimes it's going to take you a good 20 to 25 minutes on low heat to get the right consistency in a double boiler and what you want to do is just add half of a tablespoon or even half of a teaspoon depending on how much lotion you have left anymore and you can really actually risk making that loschen too thick so what you're going to want to do is gently reheat your lotion and once it gets to the desired consistency add a little bit of the liquid lanolin and let it cool you'll see that once it cools down it's probably going to be considerably thicker another thing that you can use to thicken your own homemade lotion is beeswax now you can get beeswax solid in this form or they also come in little pellets I like to use the little pellets and you would also basically take that lotion that you have heated and your double boiler and just add a few pellets out of time and let them slowly melt together what's what's going to happen once it's cooled down is it should thicken again this is only if you're making your own motion unfortunately if it's a store-bought product and it thins out you're stuck with it sorry this is Sharon coming to you from posh Hair Studio in Kew Gardens Queens New York thank you

This transcript was generated automatically from the video's captions and may contain errors.